Monday, June 27, 2011

NYP Vs. John Liu

The Daily News Has Joined the NYP in Attacking John Liu

NYP &amp; DN Supported Yassky for Comptroller

When Rich Publishers Fight

"Who's auditing the auditor?" the Daily News asks in an editorial taking Comptroller John Liu to task for blunders like revealing an ongoing part of investigators' CityTime probe. The DN does not talk about how the mayor has said the contractor has done a good job or the 1000% increase in the cost from the original contract agreement. Or the fact that 7 people have been indicted for stealing money with more arrests expected. Why is the Daily News interested in why no city official has been arrested in the CityTime scandal. Both the NYP and Daily News have attacked Liu in recent days for not paying campaign poster fines. Liu has gone after the NYP by canceling a contract between the Department of Education and Murdoch new education company headed by Joe Klein. The Daily News Zuckerman who with his Boston Properties builds office building with pension funds. We wonder what is going on with the city's pension funds and Zuckerman.

Interesting silence by NYT and, not surprisingly, NYP and WSJ on possible conflict of interest in Murdoch/Klein's no-bid state education contract.

A no-bid contracts by the New York State Department of Education(DOE) awarding $27 million to Wireless Generation, a company owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and headed up by former New York City school chancellor, Joel Klein, smacks of cronyism. It is clear that Klein used his contacts with the DOE to win the contract without a bid. It is also clear that the contract was a payoff to Murdoch for NYP support for the mayor's quest for a third term.

In an unprecedented move, the Sanitation Department has reissued more than $500,000 worth of summonses for illegal posters that city Comptroller John Liu's 2009 campaign got dismissed on technicalities a few months ago.(NYP)

NYP Calls John Liu, union sock puppetLast week, he assured New Yorkers that public-employee pensions aren't such a big deal -- in contradiction of all the evidence and sure to astonish virtually every expert on the subject.(NYP)

Bloomberg Calls Liu Pension Outlook Rosy, The Citizen Budget Commission Calls It Flawed. . . Is Liu Trying to Get Union Support to Run for Something

One thinks they’ll bankrupt the city, the other says they should drop is five years

Mayor Bloomberg fumes at Liu's rosy pension outlook While some economic analysts, including those at the Citizens Budget Commission, wondered about the accuracy of a study that looks so far into the future, the mayor's staff did not mince words. They ripped the report as "flawed." Mayor's spokesman "We've got major problems - rosy scenarios aren't going to solve them."(NYDN)

Liu Stakes Claim on City Pensions New York City taxpayer contributions to employee pension funds will peak in fiscal year 2016 at roughly $8.3 billion, after which they will decline as a percentage of the city's expenditures and revenues, according to a report from Comptroller John Liu. (WSJ

On election day non profits that had vans or buses in Flushing were busy bring Asian votes to the polls. Today Liu uses the city budget to help unions to win their favor for the mayoral campaign he wants to wage'Movers' shaken Judge rips Liu's 'pro-union' pay scale (NYP)

Bloomberg Calls Liu Pension Outlook Rosy, The Citizen Budget Commission Calls It Flawed. . . Is Liu Trying to Get Union Support to Run for Something

One thinks they’ll bankrupt the city, the other says they should drop is five years

Mayor Bloomberg fumes at Liu's rosy pension outlook While some economic analysts, including those at the Citizens Budget Commission, wondered about the accuracy of a study that looks so far into the future, the mayor's staff did not mince words. They ripped the report as "flawed." Mayor's spokesman "We've got major problems - rosy scenarios aren't going to solve them."(NYDN)

Liu Stakes Claim on City Pensions New York City taxpayer contributions to employee pension funds will peak in fiscal year 2016 at roughly $8.3 billion, after which they will decline as a percentage of the city's expenditures and revenues, according to a report from Comptroller John Liu. (WSJ)

Liu Liu

City: Liu Should Pay His Campaign Post Fines, What About Thompson and de Blasio?

In an unprecedented move, the Sanitation Department has reissued more than $500,000 worth of summonses for illegal posters that city Comptroller John Liu's 2009 campaign got dismissed on technicalities a few months ago.(NYP) *Bill Thompson Enters Mayor's Race (Fox 5)

NYP Calls John Liu, union sock puppetLast week, he assured New Yorkers that public-employee pensions aren't such a big deal -- in contradiction of all the evidence and sure to astonish virtually every expert on the subject.(NYP)

Murdoch

Payoff to Murduch

Klein's Conflict of Interest

Interesting silence by NYT and, not surprisingly, NYP and WSJ on possible conflict of interest in Murdoch/Klein's no-bid state education contract.

A no-bid contracts by the New York State Department of Education(DOE) awarding $27 million to Wireless Generation, a company owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and headed up by former New York City school chancellor, Joel Klein, smacks of cronyism. It is clear that Klein used his contacts with the DOE to win the contract without a bid. It is also clear that the contract was a payoff to Murdoch for NYP support for the mayor's quest for a third term.